United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2003-01-07 monographic deposited born digital 9 p. GA 1.13:GAO-03-257R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-257R P0b002ee18039c658 f:d03257r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-257R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-257R GAO-03-257R Military housing Military personnel Military policies Housing construction Evaluation criteria Correspondence A05824

We are reviewing the Department of Defense's (DOD) management of its unaccompanied enlisted permanent party housing, commonly referred to as barracks for unmarried servicemembers. We understand that over the next few years the services plan to eliminate barracks with gang latrines and provide private sleeping rooms (meet DOD's 1+1 barracks design standard) for all permanent party servicemembers. The Navy has an additional goal to provide barracks for sailors who currently live aboard ships when in homeport. To implement these goals, the services plan to spend about $6 billion over the next 7 years to construct new barracks. In addition to reviewing the services' plans and exploring opportunities for reducing costs, one of our objectives is to assess the consistency of and the rationale behind the services' barracks occupancy requirements. While we expect to complete our review of DOD's management of military barracks early in 2003, the purpose of this interim report is to bring to your attention the widely varying standards among the services regarding who should live in barracks, the effect this can have on program costs and quality of life, and the apparently out-of-date policy guidance on this subject. Timely resolution of these matters could potentially affect future budget decisions. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-257R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-257R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-257R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-257R.pdf GAO-03-257R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-257R Correspondence GAO-03-257R; Military Housing: Opportunity for Reducing Planned Military Construction Costs for Barracks; Military housing Military personnel Military policies Housing construction Evaluation criteria Title 31 Section 720 31 U.S.C. 720